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Common Online Terminologies Marie Danica I. Cardenas Bachelor in Secondary Education University of Santo Tomas
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Common Online Terminologies
Marie Danica I . CardenasBachelor in Secondary Education
University of Santo Tomas
E-MAIL (ELECTRONIC MAIL)
used in exchanging digital messages from
an author to one or more recipients.
Modern email operates through the Internet or
other computer networks.
WIKI
• is usually a web application which permits people to add, revise, or remove content in collaboration with others. Text is usually written using a simplified mark-up language or a rich-text editor.
• Ward Cunningham invented this web application
SOCIAL BOOKMARKING
• centralized online service which enables users to add, annotate, edit, and share bookmarks of web documents.
• Many online bookmark management services have launched since 1996
• Delicious, founded in 2003, popularized the terms "social bookmarking" and "tagging".
HTML (HYPERTEXT MARKUP LANGUAGE)
• is the main mark-up language for creating web pages and other information that can be displayed in a web browser.
• written in the form of HTML elements consisting of tags enclosed in angle brackets (like <html>), within the web page content.
PODCAST
• is a digital medium consisting of an episodic series of audio, video, PDF, or ePub files subscribed to and downloaded through web syndication or streamed online to a computer or mobile device.
VOICE OVER INTERNET PROTOCOL (VOIP)
• is a methodology and group of technologies for the delivery of voice communications and multimedia sessions over Internet Protocol (IP) networks, such as the Internet.
ONLINE CHAT
• may refer to any kind of communication over the Internet that offers a real-time transmission of text messages from sender to receiver.
• Chat messages are generally short in order to enable other participants to respond quickly. Thereby, a feeling similar to a spoken conversation is created, which distinguishes chatting from other text-based online communication forms such as Internet forums and email.
WORLD WIDE WEB
• is a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet. With a web browser, one can view web pages that may contain text, images, videos, and other multimedia and navigate between them via hyperlinks.
STREAMING
• is multimedia that is constantly received by and presented to an end-user while being delivered by a provider. Its verb form, "to stream", refers to the process of delivering media in this manner; the term refers to the delivery method of the medium rather than the medium itself.
SOCIAL NETWORKING
• is the grouping of individuals into specific groups, like small rural communities or a neighborhood subdivision, if you will. Although social networking is possible in person, especially in the workplace, universities, and high schools, it is most popular online.
UNIFORM RESOURCE LOCATOR (URL)
• is a specific character string that constitutes a reference to a resource. In most web browsers, the URL of a web page is displayed on top inside an address bar.
• URLs are commonly used for web pages (http:), but can also be used for file transfer, email, telephone numbers and many other applications
BLOG
• is a discussion or informational site published on the World Wide Web and consisting of discrete entries ("posts") typically displayed in reverse chronological order (the most recent post appears first).
• Many blogs provide commentary on a particular subject; others function as more personal online diaries; others function more as online brand advertising of a particular individual or company.
• A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, Web pages, and other media related to its topic.
WEB FEED
• is a data format used for providing users with frequently updated content.
• Content distributors syndicate a web feed, thereby allowing users to subscribe to it.
• is also sometimes referred to as a syndicated feed.
